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I've used the tutorial here (http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/category-blog-page/) to create a custom archive page, but now I'd like to stylize that page differently than other archive pages, i.e. change post title styles and the order in which they appear - where/how can I do that?

Thanks. Sorry, I always forget that part. The site is here: http://www.ibsltd.ca/pub/fredericton_royals/.

What I'm hoping to do is create individual posts for players past and present and then create archive pages for each letter of the alphabet. I don't want the player archives to show the post titles as H1 - I'd prefer something much smaller, and I'm unsure how/where to set styles to be unique to a specific archive template.

Do I need to create a 2nd template other than 'Blog' perhaps called 'Players' for example and style accordingly?

Thanks for the scoop. I've never created custom post types before, but no time like the present to learn, right? 🙂

Yes, I was going to link those letters in the table to player archives - I'm using the Tables Reloaded Plugin for all the stats tables on the site so figured it was the easiest way to accomplish that - unless you have better suggestion?

Once you start using CPTs your WordPress possibility horizons will expand considerably - I highly recommend using them.

I've had good experiences with a plugin called Taxonomy Picker and using the provided widget in a sidebar. Here's one example of that: http://aheartforjustice.com/organizations/ (it's the "Search Organizations" widget)

When you create your CPT you'd need to create one or more taxonomies to go with it, and one taxonomy could be "name" or something similar, and then you'd add terms (just like tags or categories), with each term being a letter of the alphabet. From then on it's dynamic and does the filtering for you, as long as you "tag" a post with the right term.

Once you wrap your brain around how CPTs, taxonomies, and page templates all work together, you can do all kinds of cool WordPress stuff.